Two weeks ago, I set up a litte post and a test case including some more or less common practices of dealing with content on web pages. I wanted to spot if Google changed its mind about crawling hidden or dynamically included content and which of the fetched content will get indexed anyway. Here are the interesting results…

People are discussing over and over again if dynamically included or beastly hidden content (display: none or visibility: hidden in CSS) is indexed by the Googlebot anyway. I nailed together a test case and tried to solve these questions and I would like to discuss if Fetch like Google really shows us what finally could be indexed or not.

Nowadays, responsive web design has become a common approach for building mobile-optimized Websites. As you might know, the technique behind this changes the layout of a page to enhance the user experience depending on the viewport using media queries. But what about tracking those alternate states of a page in Google Analytics? Here’s a working example of how we can track events in a responsive environment.